An open letter to Laura Kalbag, a woman who wants to be a token speaker.

This guy appears to misunderstand the purpose of affirmative action / positive discrimination. It's not to make tokens out of people, but to try to remove systemic bias against groups underrepresented in a society or subculture - case in point, females being often underrepresented in tech conferences due to rampant sexism.

Does anyone have some context to this?

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I really miss the days when discussion about conferences was more about technology and content than gender and race kerfuffles.